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Avishkar Govender lives by the maxim, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (It is a sweet and noble thing to die for one’s fatherland) and does not tolerate cowardice. Fearlessness and honesty are two prerequisites for integrity, and that is the perspective that informs this writer. Leaving university without graduating and starting BLU ERA, a premier political consultancy, of which he is Executive Director; Avishkar Govender retired at the age of 28, after redesigning the model for Political Constituency Offices so as to enable Politicians not to need donations. Working on his own, completely engulfed in elections, Avishkar Govender has, since retiring, developed meaningful relationships with some of the world’s regimes; and is never far away from the political fray in any country. His work has become so secretive and clandestine in nature that Avishkar Govender often quips that he is the only real person involved with his work – given that all of the others are spooks. In his spare time Avishkar Govender writes for the Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader and hopes that one day, he will actually have an audience for his invective and polemic discourse. In his private time Avishkar Govender catches up with the old boys of Durban High School, being a Schoolian himself, with his friends from University of KwaZulu-Natal (Natal University and University of Durban-Westville) and with his colleagues from South African Liberal Students’ Association (SALSA), being himself a past federal president of SALSA. In his own words, Avishkar Govender says, “I have never been defeated. I am not afraid of anyone, anybody, anything and/or anywhere. If you thought Bull Terriers and Jewish Mothers were tenacious, I never surrender. I do not tolerate, and do not allow the tolerance of, dishonesty, corruption, collusion, cowardice and/or sarcasm.”